In the previous piece on Mandriva's usability, we looked at the good and the bad of booting to the Live CD and then finally installing the distribution. In this article, we will pick up with installing software, the available selection of such software and the overall analysis of the distro.
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Pyro: Fire up your desktop with web apps
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"Pyro is a new kind of desktop environment for Linux built on Mozilla Firefox. Its goal is to enable true integration between the Web and modern desktop computing...."
http://www.pyrodesktop.org/Main_Page
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stellarium, A real-time realistic planetarium
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Stellarium is an education tools for those who enjoy astronomy. Stellarium present you the starry sky in different period of time, different locations and different directions in 3D.
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GIMP 2.4.0 Coming Soon
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The GIMP team is preparing for the release of GIMP 2.4.0. Today marks the release of GIMP 2.3.19, which fixes a host of issues to the point where most outstanding GIMP problems are now fixed or will be fixed in the very near future.
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Scads of Free Software for the Mac
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Sure, we all know about the highest-profile open source applications available for the Mac operating system. Firefox probably jumps to mind first, followed closely by its e-mail partner, Thunderbird. However, worthwhile as they are, applications whose development is supported by the Mozilla Foundation are just a small piece of the Mac freeware movement.
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Use Google Linux repositories in Debian
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Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories
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Power Saving for the Workstation, Part 1
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Ordinarily, the only place you see these programs are in laptops and the methods should work on laptops, and there are many places to go for information on the specialized laptop tweaks and GNOME and KDE laptop configuration options.
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Firefox 3 gets full-page zoom
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The much-anticipated page zoom feature has finally landed in Firefox 3 nightly builds. Firefox 3 will now be able to zoom the entire page, including images as well as text, just like Opera and IE 7.
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What is Tiny, Green, and Penguin-Friendly?
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Until recently, small form factor computers were mostly restricted to people who were able to build their own system. Maybe you could buy a Micro-ATX computer from Dell or HP, or something small from Shuttle, but if you wanted a Mini-ITX (or smaller) system, you were on your own.
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Sample sections available for new GIMP book
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Those wanting to perform serious graphics tasks on their Linux desktops may benefit from a new book by Michael J. Hammel's, coming soon from No Starch Press. The Artist's Guide To GIMP Effects is a four-color tome said to "harness all of the GIMP's powerful features."
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Screenshots Of DSL-4.0 Alpha 1.
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The developmental release of the beautifully "near-microscopic" Damn Small Linux 4.0 Alpha1 has been released on 17 July 2007. This is what Damn Small Linux's fans have been really longing for. Happy, no. Euphoric, yes!
Read more »A little look at Firefox GranParadiso on Ubuntu Gusty
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In a mischievous moment, I thought I would try out Firefox 3, or GranParadiso. My expectations were that nothing would look different, but there was a new rendering engine.
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Scratching an itch with Ubuntu
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I’m not sure why, but I have an itch to install Ubuntu on a real machine. I could install it in a VM in Parallels, but for some weird reason I want it on a dedicated machine.
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How-To: Install Ubuntu on LVM partitions.
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LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is a great piece of software which allow you to deal with Logical Volumes. Using LVM along with ext3 filesystem, you are allowed to extend the size of your logical drives which is pretty handy when running out of space.
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I did it! I installed Ubuntu Linux onto the Toshiba Portege 3490CT
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When I first got the Toshiba Portege 3490CT from an auction at work, my main goal for the machine was to install Linux on it. Searching the web for instructions didn’t give me enough details since I’ve never used Linux in the past.
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